Gun Grabbers

Summit Co. considers ban on guns in employees' personal vehicles

The Akron Beacon Journal reported late last week that Summit County officials are attempting to prohibit the county's 3900 non-law enforcement workers from having a firearm or handgun with them anytime they are working or doing county business, even if they are traveling in a personal vehicle. The chief of staff for County Executive Russ Pry admits that no incident prompted the legislation, but...

Exposed: The lie behind Obama's gun ban campaign

By Tim Inwood During the Presidential campaign, Senator Barack Obama told gun owners we had nothing to fear from him. Most of us did not believe him. Now that he is President, his actions have shown we were right to doubt him. Since February, the true intent of the Obama administration has become very clear. They intend to ban self-loading firearms and high capacity magazines. Within a month of...

PETA can't afford to save pets, but offers to pay to fix Cleveland's potholes

By Chad D. Baus As Buckeye Firearms Association reported recently, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite having a $32 million budget, PETA does not operate an adoption shelter. Instead, since 1998, PETA has opted to "put...

As Americans get to know the man they elected, guns & ammo grow scarce

By Chad D. Baus When Governor Ted Strickland (then a Congressman) took John Kerry goose hunting during the 2004 Presidential campaign, we recognized it for what it was - an obligatory photo op by a popular pro-gun Democrat to help a fellow anti-gun Democrat look less dangerous. It didn't work because, well, we all remember Obama's "lipstick on a pig" reference about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin,...

Media peddles the "You might be a potential crazy mass murderer if..." list while ignoring real clues

By Chad D. Baus I spent the weekend away from access to news media, so upon my return home, if anyone asked me what I had been up to, I would have said: "I spent the weekend at a shooting range with about 80 fellow Second Amendment supporters. We were attending a fundraiser for a political action committee (Buckeye Firearms Association) that seeks to defend our Constitutional right to keep and...

PETA Killed 95 Percent of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008

Hypocritical Animal Rights Group's 2008 Disclosures Bring Pet Death Toll To 21,339 WASHINGTON DC – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published documents online showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed 95 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2008. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the animal rights group kills...

The gun banners' forgotten push for open carry in Ohio

By Chad D. Baus In a recent editorial entitled "Gun Lobby Working Overtime to Normalize Abnormal Behavior," the Joyce Foundation's anti-gun blog "GunGuys" asked if readers would be willing to "sip hot chocolate with your toddler at Starbucks while a fellow patron openly displays a gun at the table next to you?" But before they chide gun rights activists for advocating the practice of open carry,...

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson refuses to answer questions about gun control enforcement in live Internet chat

By Chad D. Baus On March 24, 2009, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson took part in a live Internet chat hosted by NewsNet5.com (Cleveland's ABC affiliate, WEWS). It was clear from many of the questions that Cleveland's crime problem in general, and the city's continued enforcement of illegal gun control laws in particular, were of major concern to chat participants. But Mayor Jackson largely avoided...

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